I want EVERYONE to give me a report!

[retrowire]

Alright, I think this will be fun.

So, regarding REAL LIFE POLITICAL SWAG, (merchandise) WHAT and how much of it have you witnessed?

You may include yourself in the quantity of 1.

Basically, no headlines no polls, I want to hear what YOUVE SEEN WITH YOUR OWN EYES WHERE YOU LIVE.

For example, and I'll go first...

I have a Bernie bumper sticker and yard sign that are out daily.

As for others: I've witnessed 3 Bernie Bumper stickers in my area.

I have seen NO OTHER candidates merhandise. No Hillary, no Trump (thank god) no nothin'.

BONUS: I attended a Bernie rally in my area that was 4000 people over capacity.

What about you?

[leftofcool]

1. Only Hillary bumper stickers around here.

And I live in rural red as you can get Kentucky. No signs in my neck of the woods as they are not allowed............litter and all that stuff is why we don't allow them around the lake. If the lazy people who put them up would take them down when the election is over I might have a Hillary one in front of my lake drive but I like green living and no paper crap in my woodlands. Lots of Hillary bumper stickers though.

[azurnoir]

36. yep she does seem to her very best in red states doesn't she?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Hmm

Bernie shirt black, Bernie shirt blue, pack of buttons, window sign.

Out in the wild, 3 or 4 Bernie bumper stickers so far.

1 Hillary sticker in the wild, 1 Trump sticker in the wild.

[LWolf]

3. I have

a cup and two t-shirts.

I've seen one Carson sticker and one Trump sticker.

[NurseJackie]

4. I still see many Bush/Cheney and McCain/Palin bumper stickers around here.

Lots of Obama stickers, but no Romney stickers and nothing for the current election.

[sufrommich]

5. I saw a Romney/Ryan sticker yesterday.

I'm not kidding.How hard is it to remove old bumper stickers?

[NurseJackie]

14. It's been forever since I've seen a Gore/Lieberman bumper sticker. I guess they've all faded beyond

recognition, or the cars or so old that they're not even roadworthy any longer. (But I do recall seeing them as recently as 2010.)

I'm not a big bumper-sticker kind of person. I'm of the opinion that most people don't make up their minds by counting the number of times that they see a candidate's name on a sticker. I often feel like bumper stickers are less of "Yay for My Candidate" and more of a "Screw You Other Guy" message.

Besides, I'm not inclined to make my vehicle or my home a target for the angry "other guy" supporters.

[firebrand80]

6. Someone asked me to sign a Trump petition yesterday

To get him on our primary ballot. Needless to say, I politely declined.

[retrowire]

26. I feel like I would recoil in terror that I was near a Trump supporter... n/t

[PADemD]

7. Bernie bumper sticker & yard sign - mine

Saw a large Trump yard sign and no Hillary signs.

[Fumesucker]

8. Only my own design but I'm usually focusing on other things when I'm out and about

I make stickers with my printer and clear self adhesive shelf paper.

[bigwillq]

9. I noticed a Bernie bumper sticker

Posted to the wall of a cubicle at my workplace.

Someone made their own Bernie sign and put it in a yard on a street close to my house.

I saw a Ben Carson bumper sticker on a car driving to work the other day.

That's all I remember seeing

[randome]

10. I saw an 'I love Islam' bumper sticker the other day. Not sure what that's about.

So far as politics go, the interesting take-away from work is how little I hear about politics in general but the GOP specifically. My feeling is that the GOP has run its course with the usual worshipers and there is a slow wave change afoot.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[femmedem]

11. I have a Bernie T-shirt. Around me, in a small city in the northeast,

I see quite a few Bernie buttons, including one worn by our Mayor.
I haven't seen any Hillary anything yet, but I live in the poor side of town, shop at the food co-op, etc., hang out when I can at the town's progressive coffee shop, so my data is skewed.

[VanillaRhapsody]

12. ahhh anecdotal evidence!

screw the polls!

[RiverLover]

13. In rural Ohio, I saw a huge homemade sign in the front yard of a farm house

Bernie Sanders
2016

I wish I'd had time to stop to take a picture.

[CaptainTruth]

15. Not much here.

1 Carson sticker on a car, 1 laying on a customer's table.

2 Bernie bumper stickers, a Bernie T-shirt.

[Le Taz Hot]

16. Several Bernie yard signs, bumper stickers, buttons and t-shirts.

But then again, we've been giving out free signs, bumper stickers and buttons at our Bernie events (the campaign sent us a box of free goodies). I've seen one yard sign for "We're ready for Hillary." Nothing for the Republicans.

[NorthCarolina]

17. In my area of NC I have seen

Two Bernie yard signs (not mine although I have one), three Bernie bumper stickers (including one of my own), one Hillary bumper sticker, and three Ben Carson bumper stickers. I have yet to see any other Presidential candidate signs or stickers beyond these. I am surprised, given this area, that I have not seen ANY Trump stuff, but it's still early.

[retrowire]

21. Ben Carson? Yuck!

What area are you in? I'm in RTP.

[NorthCarolina]

38. Charlotte.

[jberryhill]

18. I saw a Romney/Ryan 2012 bumper sticker in traffic yesterday

[justhanginon]

19. I saw an NEDIB /AMABO sticker on the way for morning coffee.

Oh hell, that's in my cars back window.

[randome]

22. LOL!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

[leftofcool]

33. LOL!

[NCTraveler]

20. Tampa Bay Area - Pinellas

Me: Nothing

Often seen on cars: Ron Paul by far takes it and has for the last ten years in this area. Obama is a clear number two on bumper stickers. Clinton third, I've seen a couple dozen. I saw my first Sanders sticker in a parking lot the other day. I expect to see plenty more Sanders ones. He is just being introduced to Floridians.

I have seen no yard sings at all unless you count the painted sheet of plywood down the road from me calling for a flat tax and for Paul to save the day.

Top two bumper stickers one sees around here: Salt Life takes the lead. Coexist is a close second.

[sufrommich]

23. What does "Salt Life" mean? nt

[retrowire]

28. It means they really like the beach.

Those stickers make me go "ugh..."

[sufrommich]

29. That's cute.

We have this one in Michigan:

[NCTraveler]

32. What could possible make you go "ugh"

over a sticker that promotes being outdoors? So many of us love our Salt Life. It's why the brand took off. I can't believe no one came out with them earlier in a mass produced manner.

[retrowire]

40. simple

I am a mountain man and I hate the beach

[NCTraveler]

41. lol. I just don't get the negative feelings some hold to that which is insignificant.

I do think it explains a lot about this place. In the name of being agreeable, sand sucks.

[NCTraveler]

31. It is a brand.

They sell all kinds of different stickers that say "Salt Life" along with other products. In Florida it is by far the most used sticker on cars/trucks. It's pretty amazing how many of them are out there. I have numerous shirts from them. Seems family thinks it's all a Floridian would ever want for Christmas.

https://www.saltlife.com/

[Agschmid]

24. I've seen both Hillary and Bernie stickers.

About equal amounts.

[gollygee]

25. As far as Democratic candidates go, I've mainly seen Sanders stickers

I've seen a lot of Carson bumperstickers too though.

[Armstead]

27. Believe it or not, most common bumperstickers around here are for Obama

People who never bothered to take tam off their cars.

I kept an Elizabeth Warren bumper sticker on my car until earlier this year when I got rid of the car.

As for incidents for this this year, not many yard signs or stickers for either yet. In terms of personal encounters,Mixed between Bernie and Clinton but those who are for Bernie are definitely enthusiastically for him.

[hootinholler]

30. Mine are Bernie stickers

I've seen a couple of others, no Hillary stickers yet, a few Trump and a Few Carson.

I'm in the purple fringe of Md.

[NV Whino]

34. Zip.

For anyone.

[EarlG]

35. DC metro area here (MD suburbs)...

It's a majority-Dem area but there are still quite a few Republicans around. My friend has a nice new Bernie sticker on her car, but other than that I haven't seen much in the way of political messaging for this election cycle so far.

I did see someone driving around with a Ben Carson sticker the other day.

[retrowire]

46. Ugh...

It's too troubling to see that a whacko doctor and a egocentric megalomaniac may become the Republican party's top representatives... Yikes.

[azurnoir]

37. here in MN only Bernie and not 1 Hillary

[MohRokTah]

39. Anecdotal evidence must be dismissed out of hand as irrelevent.

Anecdotal evidence has no bearing on anything.

[retrowire]

42. in other words what you're saying is

LEAVE MY POLLS ALONE!

who cares? I'm just asking people what they've seen around them.

[MohRokTah]

44. And it signifies absolutely nothing.

A GOP pundit was certain Romney was going to win on election day in 2012.

Why?

She saw nothing but Romney yard signs in her neighborhood.

Anecdotal evidence is insignificant and irrelevant to anything.

[retrowire]

45. Remember when I said who cares?

I'm one of those that don't care.

This OP is only asking people what they've seen.

Why you keep bringing up polls is a bit revealing of a knee jerk defensive reaction...

So... Why so defensive? lol

[aidbo]

43. I have a Bernie poster in my window, a shirt & a coffee cup.

Since I started paying attention, I've seen mostly Bernie bumper stickers in my neck of the woods. I would estimate the ratio of Bernie bumper stickers I've seen to Hillary stickers to be about 7 to 1.

My neighbor has a Bernie sticker next to his Obama Biden sticker on his car.

I've also seen at least a couple Bernie stickers on lap tops.

FWIW, I live in a very liberal university town.

I haven't seen any republican paraphernalia yet. Other than some old Romney Ryan stickers.

My state's primary is in May.

[nc4bo]

47. I donates for a bumpee sticker months ago....no joy.

I think it was misdirected somewhere between a post office and my house.

Boo.